Thursday, April 24th 2025
Minisforum Showcases F1FGM MoDT Motherboard with Ryzen 9 9955HX at Japan IT Week
Minisforum is working on a new MoDT (Mobile on Desktop) motherboard lineup featuring mobile versions of AMD Ryzen processors, one of them being the F1FGM model. The motherboard came in a compact microATX form factor built around the AMD X870M chipset and is equipped with the latest AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX processor rather than traditional socket-type processors. This CPU has a boost clock of up to 5.4 GHz and is based on the Zen 5 architecture offering 16 cores, 32 threads, and 64 MB of L3 cache. Interestingly, even if this processor is rated at 55 W by default, in this particular Minisforum implementation it can be pushed up to a whopping 160 W. To efficiently dissipate the substantial 160 W thermal output and considering that mobile CPUs don't have an IHS, the motherboard comes equipped with a pre-installed vapor chamber heat spreader. The VRM features a solid design with 13-phase 60 A SPS DrMOS. Minisforum has also included large heatsinks across the VRMs, M.2 Slots and PCH.
For expansion, the Minisforum F1FGM motherboard offers one PCIe 5.0 x16 slot and one PCIe 4.0 x16 slot. Storage interfaces include one PCIe 5.0 compatible M.2 slot, three additional M.2 slots (one is rated at Gen 5 x4), two SATA 6 Gbps connections and two BIOS Debug LEDs. On the connectivity side it features two USB4 ports, one HDMI, one DisplayPort, five Gigabit Ethernet, and Wi-Fi 7 compatibility. The four 5 V ARGB LED control pin headers is a clear step towards DIY users and according to company representatives, the main competition for this motherboard will be ASUS ROG products. PCWatch reports that Minisforum intends to offer the F1FGM motherboard at a price point comparable to a standalone desktop CPU in the second half of this year.
Sources:
ITHome, PCWatch
For expansion, the Minisforum F1FGM motherboard offers one PCIe 5.0 x16 slot and one PCIe 4.0 x16 slot. Storage interfaces include one PCIe 5.0 compatible M.2 slot, three additional M.2 slots (one is rated at Gen 5 x4), two SATA 6 Gbps connections and two BIOS Debug LEDs. On the connectivity side it features two USB4 ports, one HDMI, one DisplayPort, five Gigabit Ethernet, and Wi-Fi 7 compatibility. The four 5 V ARGB LED control pin headers is a clear step towards DIY users and according to company representatives, the main competition for this motherboard will be ASUS ROG products. PCWatch reports that Minisforum intends to offer the F1FGM motherboard at a price point comparable to a standalone desktop CPU in the second half of this year.
12 Comments on Minisforum Showcases F1FGM MoDT Motherboard with Ryzen 9 9955HX at Japan IT Week
I wonder what kind of TIM they are using between the chip and the vapor chamber heat spreader
let's just say that I am, well, somewhat skeptical on this part being favorable, at least at launch anyways :D
Actually wait a sec. Did I read the article right and it has 4 m.2 slots? It says, "Storage interfaces include one PCIe 5.0 compatible M.2 slot, three additional M.2 slots". But I can only see 3 slots on the front, is there a fourth one on the back? If this is true, then you can add a simple asmedia 6x SATA breakout board on one of the m.2 ports and we are in business.Technically it has, the 6 jacks can be used with a jack to rca breakout cable and fed into an amp as 5.1 multichannel input. You can use the front panel audio breakout for headphones.
Unfortunately there's a trend of cheapening out on the back panel audio connectors, on B650M/B850M I only found one board with native 7.1 audio and that was some piece of shit ASUS gamer board. My B550M board still had 5x gold plated stereo jacks plus spdif, but unfortunately I can't use it because the onboard audio chip died (!!!) and only outputs static.
Take note this is technically the only known micro ATX X870 motherboard at the moment. Yes it has a fixed mobile CPU on it, but it should be just as efficient as a
7950X3D7800X3D (75W TDP).